Advocacy August is right here – be part of MENTOR in lifting our voices for youth mentoring!

July 29, 2025

By: MENTOR

Advocacy

MENTOR’s annual Advocacy August marketing campaign is again! Every year, we use this month to teach, encourage, and activate passionate advocates throughout the nation to talk up for the ability of mentoring – regardless of your degree of expertise or consolation with advocacy.

This yr, we’re specializing in easy methods to advocate successfully in right now’s unsure and ever-changing panorama. Every week, we’ll discover a special theme to assist us be taught, replicate, and take motion – collectively.

On the coronary heart of all efficient advocacy is an easy and highly effective formulation:

Advocacy = Schooling + Relationship

Whether or not you’re participating native, state, or federal leaders, this equation can information your strategy. Once we present as much as educate decision-makers and construct relationships over time, actual change turns into attainable.

MENTOR believes that advocacy is without doubt one of the most empowering instruments out there to the general public – nevertheless it solely works if we select to make use of it.

That’s why we’re inviting you to take a small however significant step this month:

• Attain out to not less than one public official – whether or not it’s your metropolis council member, mayor, state legislator, or a member of Congress – and share why mentoring issues to you. Encourage them to make use of their platform to broaden entry to high quality mentoring alternatives for all younger individuals.

We all know scheduling conferences with public officers can take time, so begin now and get one thing on the books: a telephone name, digital assembly, or in-person dialog.

When you meet with them, don’t neglect to log your engagement right here – this helps us monitor our collective momentum and influence.

We’re excited to kick issues off this week with a particular message from Mayor Ewing of Omaha, Nebraska. Be part of us all through August as we discover ways in which we will collectively advance shiny futures and alternatives for our nation’s youth – one dialog at a time.